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the uppermost } in. long.. Nut 2; in. long, globose, apiculate, reti- 
culate with shallow pits, minutely hairy on the transverse ridges 
when young, pale straw-colored, disk with very short rounded Jobes 
the same color as the nut. 
Dehra Dun (Gamble). Distr. : Throughout India except the N. W. 
China, Java. 
15. CAREX, Linn. Fi. Brit. Ind. vi, 699, 
Perennial grass-like herbs, Stems triquetrous. Inflorescence of 
simple or more often panicled spikes which are either androgynous 
or unisexual. Male flowers forming a simple spike each consisting 
of 3 rarely 2 stamens in the axil of a bract or glume. Female 
spikelets forming a spike each in the axil of a bract or glume and 
consisting of a bottle-shaped or compressed glume or utricle which 
completely surrounds the spikelet which is so reduced as to resemble 
a simple flower, consisting of a naked ovary, the axis of the spike 
let being very rarely evident. Utricle completely enclosing the 
nut, the 2 or 3 stigmas exserted from the commonly 2-fid neck 
or beak of the utricle. Nut compressed or trigonous, Species 
about 800 thronghout the world mainly in cold and_ temperate 
regions, 
Stigmas 2, utricle compressed ‘ - - J. C. cernua. 
Stigmas 3, utriele not compressed. 
Panicle Jax or of few spikes. 
Spikes 2-3 in. long, female below male 
above > ° ; d ‘ » 2. C. myosurus. 
Spikes up to 1} in. long, the upper 2-3 
wholly male the rest wholly female . 3. C. Wallichiana. 
Panicle dense, decompound . : . 4. C. condensata. 
1. C. cernua, Bott, Illustr, IV (1876), t. 578; F. B. I. vi, 708; 
Pflanzenr. IV, 20, p. 353, fig. 56 D-F. 
Rhizome stoloniferous. Stem 18-30 in. high, triquetrous, scabrid 
upwards, basal sheaths brown not fibrous. Leaves about } in. wide 
as long as ‘the stem, flat, seabrid. Spikes 5-8, dense, cylindric, 1-2 
in. long, the terminal usually female only at the top, one or two or 
